First Light Wagyu

Our ingredients include great genetics, carefully designed systems and processes, quality grass all year round and most importantly, finely tuned specialist grass farmers. Back in the beginning, we started out with full blood Wagyu cattle and quickly worked out they are not well suited to a 100% grass-fed system. Today all First Light grass-fed Wagyu cattle are the progeny of full blood Wagyu bulls across one of two cow herd systems — traditional (predominantly Angus) beef cows, and New Zealand dairy (Friesian/Jersey cross — otherwise known as ‘Kiwi’) cows.

The First Light Wagyu Producer Group is a band of pioneers. They did the unthinkable and took Wagyu cattle out of their pens and raised them on grass. It hasn’t been easy, but being a pioneer never is. The result of all their hard work is the most extraordinarily tender, marbled grass-fed beef, which beef experts all over the world are describing as the best grass-fed beef in the world.